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As it turned out, Angnak's extreme rage was really just a momentary outburst.

He furiously attacked the Four Divine Beasts, who had been standing on the outermost perimeter of the Chief Gods, near the Plane Battlefield. Caught off guard by the preemptive strike, they scattered and regrouped.

Because of this, Angnak had charged quite far outside the range of the other Chief Gods. Once the Four Divine Beasts regrouped, they turned around and unleashed their combined innate divine ability against him.

Orloff, seeing that the battle had already broken out, realized that since Angnak was a Chief God on his own side, attacking the Four Divine Beasts before the facts were settled violated the agreement against high-tier Chief Gods attacking lower-tier ones. He happened to descend between the two parties to stop the fight.

Little did he know that the Four Divine Beasts had been hiding their true strength; their combined innate divine ability was terrifyingly powerful, killing Angnak in a single blow.

Angnak did not possess a body at the level of a Chief God Artifact. Upon his death, his body instantly shattered and vanished into nothingness, leaving only his mid-tier Fate Chief God Spark, which flew rapidly toward the Plane Battlefield under the influence of spatial turbulence.

Because Angnak died so suddenly, none of the Chief Gods had expected him to be the one to perish, so they were all caught off guard. Furthermore, he had died at a considerable distance, and by the time the Chief Gods reacted, it was already too late—Desterie had already seized the Chief God Spark and refined it.

Understanding these details truly made Desterie marvel at how effective his "Strong Luck" really was. He had gained some perspective, having encountered such a bizarre, fairy-tale-like story and becoming its greatest beneficiary.

Watching the Plane Battlefield war drawing to a close, Desterie suddenly noticed that Iluka had taken advantage of the chaos to find Dalayer.

He handed a spatial ring to Dalayer and then hurried away.

Desterie also suddenly remembered that he hadn't informed Dalayer of his situation. If she heard from someone else that he had been banished into the spatial turbulence, that would be bad. He immediately sent a voice transmission: "After the Plane Battlefield war ends in a moment, return directly to the Netherworld. I will wait for you there."

Afterward, he sent a voice transmission to the Sovereign of Death: "My Lord, we intend to protect Iluka later, right? The Fate-affiliated Chief Gods likely won't let him go. But after all, he helped the Netherworld win; if we let something happen to him, it will weaken the prestige of the Netherworld!"

At this moment, Desterie had to choose between Orloff and the Sovereign of Death; no one would tolerate someone playing both sides.

Normally, Orloff was the strongest and the best choice, but it is difficult to trust someone who abandons others. If Desterie chose to betray the Sovereign of Death now, it was hard to say if he would be discarded by Orloff later. Although the Sovereign of Death was inferior to Orloff and Uthred, the Sovereign of Life, Vivian, stood firmly on her side.

Most importantly, the mission of the Supreme God of Destruction was currently underway. Whether this was the first or second time, it proved that Orloff's dual-defense Supreme God Artifact was not yet ready. With two Supreme God Tokens in Desterie's hands, neither Orloff nor Uthred had any chance of completing this mission.

Only with this foundation did he have the confidence to not be of one mind with Orloff.

Furthermore, Iluka had spared him and Dalayer before, and his actions in creating momentum for him, along with what he had just given to Dalayer, meant he could not simply ignore Iluka.

The Sovereign of Death also replied with a chuckle via voice transmission: "I intended to protect him anyway, but is it appropriate for a Fate Chief God like you to be concerned about the prestige of my Netherworld?"

Desterie laughed: "Although I am a Fate Chief God, I am also here to follow you, my Lord. Not to mention that you have shown me much favor in the past, even just now, you have spoken up for me multiple times. If I don't follow you, who else would I follow?"

Hearing this, the Sovereign of Death smiled even more happily, her eyes crinkling with amusement: "Desterie, it seems I didn't misjudge you. Listen clearly, my name is Lilith."

Hearing the words of the Sovereign of Death, Lilith, Desterie once again cast a look of mutual understanding and revealed a smile.

Soon, the Netherworld achieved a complete victory on the second Galaxy Channel. This Plane Battlefield war ended the Heavenly Realm's ten-game winning streak with a victory for the Netherworld!

Because Iluka had defected to help the Netherworld achieve victory, the surviving commanders and soldiers representing the Heavenly Realm looked at this powerful traitor with hatred and fear on their way back, but Iluka remained unmoved.

When entering or exiting the Plane Battlefield, one could use any of the ten plane channels to leave.

Iluka had offended all the Fate Chief Gods; he had no intention of returning via the Heavenly Realm. The safest route back was naturally toward the Netherworld. Moreover, he planned to leave the Supreme Plane as quickly as possible once he returned to the Netherworld, heading back to a material plane to resume his life of seclusion for countless years.

Seeing his movements, the other six Fate Chief Gods also moved toward the Netherworld—they were going to descend upon the Netherworld in their true forms!

Seeing the actions of Orloff and the others, the Sovereign of Life, the Sovereign of Destruction, and the others also took their leave one after another.

After Vivian and Uthred left, the Sovereign of Death, Desterie, and the other Chief Gods who resided in the Netherworld naturally hurried back as well.

In the Netherworld, in the Jiuyou Territory, on Yangu Mountain, all the guards were on high alert, preparing to welcome the triumphant return of the "lucky ones" who had survived the disaster.

Being able to return alive from such a meat grinder, a graveyard of Asuras, was definitely worthy of being called lucky.

In the Plane Battlefield, in terms of speed, no one could surpass a Paragon Highgod. Therefore, the first to arrive in the Netherworld through the plane channel was Iluka.

The Seven-Star Fiend entrusted by the Lord of Yangu to guard the gate, although he had learned of Iluka's fame over the past millennium, had never seen his image or felt his aura. He did not recognize him as a Paragon Highgod, but knowing he was a powerhouse, he greeted him enthusiastically: "Congratulations! To have survived that place—I wonder if you have obtained enough military merits? If you have gathered ten, you can go directly to a Chief God to exchange them for a Chief God Artifact; you don't need to register with me anymore!"

Iluka glanced at him. In that brief moment, he had already used Chief God power to determine his orientation and immediately decided to head toward the Nether Sea teleportation array, soaring into the sky in an instant.

But just as he rushed out of Yangu Mountain, an extremely eerie soul attack struck, containing the resolve to obliterate everything!

It was too late to dodge! Iluka gave a bitter smile. As expected, trying to escape under the nose of a Chief God was nothing but a pipe dream. He closed his eyes. Even as a Paragon, facing a Chief God in person meant certain death.

Little did he know that at this very moment, an equally mysterious aura connected with something hanging on his body, instantly pulling him away and narrowly avoiding the fatal strike.

The soul attack landed on the mountain instead, and the resulting shockwave indiscriminately killed a large swath of Highgods, clearing the battlefield instantly.